Very mild, wet, overcast nasty day. Arose 6:30 A.M. Studied. Breakfast. To College 8 A.M.-12:15 M. Wrote letters. To P.O. Helped father. Odd jobs. Got Hudson car from garage. Supper. Studied. Fred Lincks called in evening. To bed 10 P.M.
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I finally found Fred Lincks on record. He was a student at the Summer School for Christian Workers in 1921, held at the Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, NY. He is listed as G. Fred Lincks there, and shows as being from Schenectady. Ruth is also listed as being a student at Auburn that summer. The Auburn Theological Seminary still exists, and in fact seems to be going strong, affiliated since 1818 with the Presbyterian Church. Here is their website: Auburn.
There are later records of G. Fred Lincks, who was an engineer for General Electric in 1940, living in Pittsfield, MA. It certainly seems likely that this Fred is Stanford's Fred, since in 1921, Fred may have been working at the GE plant in Schenectady and then later moved to Pittsfield where he is listed in the census records. In 1930 he was living at the YMCA there and working for GE as an electrical engineer, but by 1940 he had a wife and a 1 year old daughter. Looking through Newspapers.com, I can see from the many stories about him in the Pittsfield newspaper that Fred had a long career with GE in Pittsfield, where he lived the rest of his life, dying there in 1994 at the age of 93. His wife, Beatrice, who was 14 years younger than he, died in 2011 at 95.
I found one other little story about G. Fred Lincks. The Pittsfield YMCA gives an award in memory of Fred, the Fred G. Lincks Award. Here is a little bit of information about the most recent recipient of it which also tells why Fred was worthy of remembering.
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I finally found Fred Lincks on record. He was a student at the Summer School for Christian Workers in 1921, held at the Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, NY. He is listed as G. Fred Lincks there, and shows as being from Schenectady. Ruth is also listed as being a student at Auburn that summer. The Auburn Theological Seminary still exists, and in fact seems to be going strong, affiliated since 1818 with the Presbyterian Church. Here is their website: Auburn.
There are later records of G. Fred Lincks, who was an engineer for General Electric in 1940, living in Pittsfield, MA. It certainly seems likely that this Fred is Stanford's Fred, since in 1921, Fred may have been working at the GE plant in Schenectady and then later moved to Pittsfield where he is listed in the census records. In 1930 he was living at the YMCA there and working for GE as an electrical engineer, but by 1940 he had a wife and a 1 year old daughter. Looking through Newspapers.com, I can see from the many stories about him in the Pittsfield newspaper that Fred had a long career with GE in Pittsfield, where he lived the rest of his life, dying there in 1994 at the age of 93. His wife, Beatrice, who was 14 years younger than he, died in 2011 at 95.
I found one other little story about G. Fred Lincks. The Pittsfield YMCA gives an award in memory of Fred, the Fred G. Lincks Award. Here is a little bit of information about the most recent recipient of it which also tells why Fred was worthy of remembering.
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